Chapter 16: Separation
After the children had eaten, they didn’t want to go back. Since Ningjing could find it, they could find it too!
Ningjing and his friends, a thin and dark boy about eleven or twelve years old, found a squirrel hole and discovered a lot of food in the hole.
Ningjing also saw that they were growing wheat and corn here. In addition to wheat and corn, there were also soybeans and peanuts in this cave.
this!
The little friends' faces were filled with excitement. There were so many of these things, and they looked heavier than they were. If they could take them home, it would help alleviate the famine.
But is it possible?
They all looked at Li Dachuan at the same time. Although Li Dachuan was only twelve years old, he understood what his friends meant. He didn't mean to keep it for himself. Besides, even if he took it home, he might not be able to eat it. It was better to share it with his friends.
Soon he said happily, "Why are you looking at me? We all discovered this together, so whoever sees it gets a share!"
All of a sudden, the friends were so happy that they couldn't contain themselves. Even if they divided the food equally among the fourteen of them, they could still get several kilograms of food.
Zhang Wenliang, as expected of an accountant's son, was very good at drawing inferences from one example. He said, "There's food in this hole. Squirrels won't just hide food in one hole. There must be food somewhere else. Let's look for it carefully. If we find it, we'll share it equally!"
Soon the friends dispersed, but this time they were not so lucky. They didn’t find any squirrel holes, only a few mouse holes, and there was not much food in the holes, but it was better than nothing.
Later, his friends asked Li Dachuan how he found the squirrel hole. Li Dachuan scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Well, I accidentally tripped and found it. Otherwise, I would have found it."
The friends divided the food in the cave. Since it was Li Dachuan who discovered it, he got more, about five pounds.
Li Dachuan was walking at the end, and Ning Jing noticed that Ning Xiaosan was also slowly falling behind.
Li Dachuan wanted to give the food to Ning Xiaosan, but Ning Xiaosan took it and said, "Don't worry, Dachuanzi, your food won't get lost if you leave it with me!"
Ning Xiaosan promised, and seeing Ning Jing looking at him, he explained, "Sister, even if Dachuanzi takes this food home, he won't be able to eat it. His second aunt won't give it to him."
Ning Jing knew Li Dachuan. Ning Xiaosan, the chatterbox, had mentioned more than once that Li Dachuan and Li Xiaomei were pitiful.
It is said that his parents passed away, and then he and his sister lived with his second uncle. Only Li Dachuan and Li Xiaomei became the little cabbages in the family, doing the most work and eating the least.
Li Dachuan lived a good life in the past few years. His second uncle's family had no boys and wanted to adopt Li Dachuan. However, since Li Baogen and Li Dachuan were born, he had to work like a strong laborer at the age of twelve. If he didn't get enough points, he would not only not have food to eat, but also be beaten.
Ning Jing felt that Li Dachuan was very pitiful, but no one had an easy life these days. She pursed her lips, looked at Li Dachuan's too thin back, and finally shouted: "Brother Dachuan, wait a minute!"
"What's wrong, sister Ning, do you have anything else to do?"
Li Dachuan knew that Ning Jing was a child spoiled by the Li family. Li Dachuan actually hoped that his sister could be spoiled like Ning Jing, but when he thought of the situation at home, he shook his head.
(End of this chapter)
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